The Skills You Need Guide to Leadership

This four-part guide to leadership is the second edition of the Skills You Need Guide to Leadership, with new and updated content.

Ideal for new and experienced leaders alike.

New! - Revised and Updated for 2019

Our eBooks will guide you from your first steps into leadership, through developing and becoming more confident in your leadership style, and learning to manage people and teams, to how to get things done.

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Learning to Lead

Personal Leadership Skills

Leading and Managing Others

Making It Happen

£30

Learning to Lead

Understanding leadership and developing your leadership style.

£9.50

If you are starting your first leadership role, then this eBook will be invaluable to you. It takes you through theories of leadership, explaining the difference between leadership and management, and introduces the concept of leadership styles. Providing a quiz to help you work out your leadership style, it then offers a six-step programme for development, including some essential hints for strengthening each individual style.

A step-by-step guide to learning to lead, this book, the first in a series of four, could well be essential reading for new leaders.

This new edition contains new and updated content to help leaders at all levels to develop their skills.

Published by: Skills You Need Limited. January 2019.

ISBN: 978-1-911084-16-7

Personal Leadership Skills

Developing the skills you need to lead.

£9.50

The revised edition of this eBook takes you through some of the skills that are considered most important for leaders, and which you have least opportunity to develop before taking up a leadership position. This eBook focuses very much on you, rather than your ability to manage others, which is covered in the third eBook in this series.

The eBook begins by considering the importance of understanding and managing your emotions, and how you can do this. It considers the nature of self-confidence and motivation, on the grounds that it is impossible to motivate others effectively without understanding your own motivation. It then moves into other skills such as organisation, time management, strategic thinking, creative thinking and innovation.

This new third eBook in our series on leadership focuses on the skills required to lead people and teams, and contains content that has not previously been published in book form. It describes the skills needed to build a team, then moves on to discuss how to delegate, manage and oversee work, before considering how to provide feedback, coach and manage performance. It also covers how to motivate, influence and persuade others.

This eBook therefore covers both the formal and informal aspects of leadership and management. It recognises that new managers and leaders are not necessarily familiar with even the ‘small skills’ of leadership, such as giving effective feedback, and that everyone can learn new skills.

This eBook is designed for anyone embarking on their first management post or wondering what skills to develop to move up the ladder.

Published by: Skills You Need Limited. January 2019.

ISBN: 978-1-911084-18-1

Making It Happen

Project and change management skills for leaders.

£9.50

This fourth instalment in our leadership series discusses how leaders can support change management programmes and ‘make things happen’ in their organisation.

Giving a comprehensive but succinct summary of change management theory, it enables both new and more experienced leaders to set their work in the context of organisational development thinking over the last twenty years or more. It also contains new content on the vital leadership skill of setting and communicating a compelling vision for the organisation.

Don’t be fooled into thinking this is just another project management textbook: this book may show the nuts and bolts of project management, but it is from a leader’s perspective. It shows new leaders how to work out what is really going on in their projects and programmes, and what questions to ask to make sure they understand and will be effective project sponsors and leaders.

Personal Development

Learn how to set yourself effective personal goals and find the motivation you need to achieve them. This is the essence of personal development, a set of skills designed to help you reach your full potential, at work, in study and in your personal life.

The Skills You Need Guide to Personal Development eBook is ideal for anyone who wants to improve their skills and learning potential, and it is full of easy-to-follow, practical information.

Getting a Job

This is an eBook that no potential job-seeker can afford to be without!

The Skills You Need Guide to Getting a Job takes you through the whole process of getting a job.

It helps you to identify what you can offer to employers, before moving on to applying for jobs and attending interviews. It also shows you how to avoid putting off potential employers, by making sure that your digital profile is as suitable as your CV or résumé.

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